Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
PETRARCHMan has not a greater enemy than himself.
More Petrarch Quotes
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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